The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-07
SOUTHERN aLEANlNes.

bishop in 1881.
While returning from a Sunday school
concert at Calvary church, EdgefeId
County, S. c., few nights ago, Will Blu.
lOrd was shot and killed by Paul Griffin.
5rifin declares that the killing was accf-
iental; that he shot at EIdred OIiphant,
with whom he had quarreIed about escort
ng a girl from the church, and that the
pistol bali missed Oliphant and struck
3uford.
Edmund Montgomery died on Nick
Jordan's place, near the county line of
5chley, Ga, a few days ago, aged one
9undred and two years. He was an
African chief of the Askari tribe, and was
iaken to Virginia from Africa in 1907,
when he was stalwart young man. He
had large family in Virginia, and when
le died he left his third wife and twenty
i've children in Georgia. His grandchtl-
1ren and great-grandchiIdren are I'M
known and unnumbered. He had re-
narkable good eyesight and health, and
aever took dose of medicine in his life.
Be had teeth like ivory and every one was
IN his head at the time of death.
julie j. Sigman, a saloon-keePer, and E.
J. WilkersOn, both powerful men, assaulted
A.. w. Reynolds, editor of the Holly
5prings (diss.) Daily Sun, a few days ago,
md beat him numerically over the head
md body with a club and loaded whip.
Preston FAINT, son Of the mayor, stood
in the door of the Office and attempted to
prevent bystanders from stopping the
row.
There is an organization Of the labor
vote in Virginia sufficiently strong to
count one of the uU certainties Of the
campaign.
The salary of judge in the mountain
districts of Kentucky is $500 a year, of .
county attorney $500, Of clerk $3.50, and a
sheriff $500.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ruprecht died in Ovens
boro, Ky, recently, at the age of ninety
one years. She was born in Pegintz, Ba-
varia, in 1876, and has been resident OF
Owensboro for thirty years.
Mr.. Israel Johnson, living on the east
side of the Oconee, near Dublin, Ga, on
one day recently extricated and killed
thirty-four large moccasins from q hole
in his mill dam.
The Democratic convention of the Sixth
district of Louisiana nominated Colonel S.
NJ. Robertson, of Baton Rouge, for Con-
gress, to succeed his father, the late
Colonel E. Robertson.
C. F. Mavis has filed a suit in the
1 District Court at Palestine, Tenn,
against the Missouri Pacific Railway
Company for $500 damages claimed for
/ injuries to his person inflicted by the cars
at a crossing on September 10.
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stove at her residence in Mobile, Ala,
caused a flare up of flames, the stove hav-
ing been allowed to leak over night. The
lady's clothes caught fire, and she was
terribly burned from the neck to the heels.
1t is doubtful if she RECEIVERS.
At the Hail gold mine in Georgia, Sam
Ewing recently had 500 stolen from him
in singular manner. He was in the
habit Of depositing his moDsy in hollow
in 1a for fa Ta
| went to the stump to make another de.
posit, when he discovered that some one
/ had made a draft oD his bank and ex-
/ hausted his surplus.
| In the Georgia Senate, recently a substi-
/ tute for famous Glenn bill against mixing
/ negroes and whites in the public schools,
/ was passed. The House has in turn re-
! jected the substitute.
! The construction Of the Kansas City,
/ Memphis g. Birmingham railroad bridge
1 across the Tombigbee River at Aberdeen,
1 Miss, is progressing favorably, though
/ several drawbacks have been encountered,
/ and the contractors are employing every
/ means for facilitating the works, labor
/ ing day and night when vantage ground
4 9an be obtained by extra time.
/ The J. B. Wathen & Bro. Company,
! 1istillers at Louisville, KY, has made an
! ssignment The liabilities are placed at
! $4,000. The assets, including the plant,
| which is one of the most costly of the kind
! in the State, are 1926, 900. The general de-
/ preston in trade and a destructive fire
/ which necessitated the construction of
/ new warehouses by the firm in 1886 are
I given as the causes of the failure.
A white fisherman named John Davis
was arrested at Chattanooga, Tenn, few
lays ago, for the murder of his wife, and
was committed to jail without bail. Mrs.
/ Davis died recently very suddenly. Davis
stated at the time that she had eaten a
/ hearty supper and was dead in an hour
( and thirty minutes. Supicious circum-
/ stances aroused the officials, and the re-
mains were disinterred, and the fact was
revealed that the skull had been frac-
tured by blow.
A fatal altercation is reported from Hall
| County, Ca, in which the exciting cause
was the ownership of two puppies. The
dispute was between " Z. Wilder and
! Charles Maddox, which terminated by
Maddox chasing Wilder with an axe.
Maddox's wife swore out warrants against
| Wilder and his sister. Wilder resisted ar.
rest, chopping right and left with his axe,
striking J. H. Durham with his axe cutting
| him through the shoulder six inches deep.
/ Durham then shot Maddox in the hip, the
/ bullet lodging near the kidneys, inflcting
a fatal wound.
The strike in the woolen mills at Louis.
! vile, KY, which was inaugur ated
two months ago, has proven failure. The
weavers demanded an increase of wages,
and were supported in this action by the
Knights of Labor. The mill owners took a
firm stand, refusing to take back any of
/ the strikers who would not sign an agree
ment to give up all allegiance to the
/ Knights and return at the old wages. They
were compelled to close. Recently, how
| ever, their employees began to seek their
| old places at their owners terms, and
! nearly all of the weavers have agreed to
the conditions. Two mills are at work,
and another expected to be able to resume.
1t is a very severe defeat for the Knights
| of Labor, who lose nearly seven hundred
members, after supporting that number
| FOR two months.
The cotton gins are busy.
Mrs. Clarissa Sidener, of Adamstown,
| Ky, made her own clothes and did her
She died recently, in her 18th year. All
of her teeth, excepting four, were perfect
ly sound at time of her death.
Near Cedar Hill, Tenn, a few days ago,
/ J. Irving Polk suicided by shooting him
self in the head with a double-barrel
shotgun. He had been in bad health for
4 some time, and Of late has been very de-
| spondent. When found he was lying on a
lounge with the gun beside him, the RAM
rod close by, large hole in his right tenn
pie. He was about thirty five years Of
age and unmarried.
Union, S. c., has a negro boy Who eats
/ gravel.
A ten-year- colored boy named
Grant Lamar is on trial at Atlanta, Ca,
for the murder OF Green Andrews, q com
panion, aged thirteen. The extreme youth
of the prisoner makes the case remark
able Lamar was employed in butcher
shop in the West End and between times
blackened boots. Green Andrews met him
and asked him to black his shoes, oonclud.
ing the transaction by refusing to pay